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Turkewitz White House Law Blogger Announcement Has Legs Despite Mediocre Use of Photoshop

By Eric Lipman

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Yesterday, Eric Turkewitz, whose New York Personal Injury Blog is part of the Law.com Blog Network, made a pretty huge announcement. Namely, that he had been tapped as the first official White House law blogger. The "news" spread like wildfire. It was "picked up" by, among others, Above the Law and The New York Times. The Volokh Conspiracy even purported to have confirmed the appointment through its own sources. Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice put up a post in which he admitted to being jealous, and had some pretty harsh words to say about Turkewitz (and I thought he hated me best!). Popehat had a nice rant too. Then, the WSJ Law Blog, with direct attribution to a White House spokesman who refuted the story, declared the announcement an April Fools' Joke. And the Times removed its initial reference to the news from its City Room Blog, where it had appeared, with a note that "[b]logospheric chatter" (is there an ointment for that?) indicated that the Gray Lady had indeed been punked. But, it was still April 1. Sooooooo, Turkewitz posted a denial of the denial. Seriously? I won't even attempt to catalog all of the blog backing and forthing...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).